Lenovo ThinkSystem Servers

Lenovo ThinkSystem Servers: 88 Performance World Records

Lenovo ThinkSystem Servers are the first range of servers designed by Lenovo. The new range of ThinkSystem Servers have been completely redesigned so you now have common components across the range i.e. power supplies, drives, trays etc. In the past each IBM/Lenovo server had different drive part numbers for the same drive! By introducing common parts across the entire range now makes support and maintenance far easier with less complexity.

The Lenovo ThinkSystem servers currently hold 88 Performance World Records as of November 8, 2017. These World Records are in the areas of Business Processing, Big Data Analytics, Infrastructure Virtualization, Server Side Java and General and Technical Computing.

46 of these are new #1 benchmarks and 42 are maintained as #1 benchmarks.

These world-record benchmark results with the ThinkSystem SR950 and SR650 rack servers, shown below, as well as the ThinkSystem SD530 dense server, SR630 and SR850 rack servers, and the SN550 blade server. All ThinkSystem servers are based on the Intel Xeon Scalable Family of processors.

Business Processing

The ThinkSystem SR950 and SR650 have five world record benchmarks for Business Processing.

TPC-E benchmarks

The Lenovo results:

Overall Performance and 4-Socket Price/Performance – Two world recordsThe Lenovo ThinkSystem SR950 delivered the best performance result ever (all servers) and the best ever 4P price/performance TPC-E benchmark result.

2-Socket Performance and Overall Price/Performance – Two world recordsThe Lenovo ThinkSystem SR650 holds the best performance result ever on the 2P TPC-E performance and overall (all servers) price/performance benchmark result.

SAP Sales and Distribution (SAP SD) Benchmark

The Lenovo result:

4-Socket Performance – World Record on WindowsThe ThinkSystem SR950 delivered the best 4P performance result on Windows in the SAP Sales and Distribution Benchmark.

Big Data Analytics – 37 records

The Lenovo ThinkSystem SR950 and SR650 have has 37 world record Big Data Analytics benchmarks.

SAP HANA (BWoH)

The Lenovo result:

4-Socket Performance – Six world recordsThe Lenovo ThinkSystem SR950 holds 6 performance world records with the 4 socket SAP HANA BWoH benchmark. This includes data load, query throughput and query runtime in two different data volumes.

STAC-M3 Shasta Suite

The Lenovo results:

4-Socket performance – 16 world recordsThe Lenovo ThinkSystem SR950 holds 16 world records for the “big memory” STAC-M3 benchmark. This combines the SR950 new benchmark results and the ones previously published on July 11, 2017 that remain world records.

4-Socket performance – Two world records (SPEC CPU2017)The Lenovo ThinkSystem SR950 delivered two 4P world records for compute-intensive applications with the SPEC CPU2017 benchmark. This includes SPECint_rate_base2017 and SPECfp_rate_base2017.

2-Socket Performance – World record (SPEC CPU2017)The Lenovo ThinkSystem SR630 delivered a 2P world record for compute-intensive applications with the CPU2017, SPECspeed2017_fp_base benchmark.

1-Socket Performance – Four world records (3x SPEC CPU2017 and 1x CPU2006)The ThinkSystem SR650 and SR630 delivered four 1P world records for compute-intensive applications with the CPU2017 benchmark. This includes SPECrate2017_int_base, SPECint_rate_base2006, SPECspeed2017_int_base, SPECspeed2017_fp_base

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